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▲ BoingBoomTschak 2 hours ago

You have to understand that road wear is governed by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

"The fourth power law (also known as the fourth power rule) is a rule of thumb which states that the damage to the road caused by a motor vehicle increases in proportion to the fourth power of its axle load. This law was discovered in the course of a series of scientific experiments in the United States in the late 1950s and was decisive for the development of standard construction methods in road construction."

"Example: Car (total weight 2 tonnes, 2 axles): load per axle: 1 tonnes vs Truck (total weight 30 tonnes, 3 axles): load per axle: 10 tonnes. [...] The resulting damage differential between truck and car is 15,000 to 1"

PS: this is something electric car proponents don't talk much about

▲RugnirViking 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

worth noting that many electric cars weigh 2 tons or thereabout, like the car in your example. internal combustion cars tend to be lighter than that

▲kalaksi 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> PS: this is something electric car proponents don't talk much about. In France, we're getting a "car weight tax" too (https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F3...).

I hope trucks transporting fuel for ICEs get equal treatment.

▲BoingBoomTschak 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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